The highlight of Microsoft's new Windows Phone 8.1 mobile operating system has got to be its personal digital assistant, Cortana. Combining the AI-like personality of Apple's Siri with the predictive, data- and location-driven intelligence of Android's Google Now, Cortana lets you initiate calls and send text, find out the weather and sports results, and look up facts.

She even lets you schedule reminders based on your location or on events like receiving a call or text from a particular contact.

But like Siri, Cortana shows signs of having a personality: She can even field some rather inappropriate, racy questions. So we decided to mess around with Microsoft's new AI, getting perhaps a bit too personal. In the spirit of the hit movie Her, we asked Cortana about her appearance and affections, and we even insulted her. Watch the video below to see her amusing responses.

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Michael Muchmore is PC Magazine's lead analyst for software and web applications. A native New Yorker, he has at various times headed up PC Magazine's coverage of Web development, enterprise software, and display technologies. Michael cowrote one of the first overviews of web services for a general audience. Before that he worked on PC Magazine's S... See Full Bio

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